The Maniac

Picked this up after reading [[When we cease to understand the world]] by the same author and feeling I’d just been introduced to a new genre. This one fulfilled its promise: more Labatut, with a focus on von Neumann. Similar to my experience with [[When we cease to understand the world]], this made me want to go and read a bunch of other books; von Neumann’s writings on computing in this case. Labatut has the gift of piquing a reader’s curiosity.